[Wild fang project] Garouden I pure fighting action novel

by Unknown

  He was wearing white pants and a green t-shirt that was wide open in the front. He had dyed his hair bright blond while it was black before the summer began. He also grew a very thin beard under his nose.

  "What the fuck are you doing here!!?"

  Shimamura lifted his shoulders a bit, he was menacing as usual.

  Kikuchiyo didn't answer.

  [034]

  Looking down, Kikuchiyo kept his silence.

  "You fucker!! You were following Noriko too, right?"

  Shimamura smirked and let his gum show.

  Without changing his stance, Kikuchiyo didn't mutter a sound.

  The accusation was baseless since this was the direction that Kikuchiyo took everyday to return home. It would have taken him ten minutes walking and turning two more blocks to get home.

  He had taken a different street, even though he could have kept walking and arriving home the usual way. There were a lot of people on the main street and he risked running into many kids. This was a longer road but it was pleasant and he liked the walk, but that didn't change the fact that he was indeed following Noriko to her house.

  "Huh!! Say something?" he gave a small push to Kikuchiyo. The silence was annoying him.

  Shimamura was famous in Isogahara junior high school for being a notorious troublemaker and he seldom went to class. He had never been arrested but he had attacked and punched teachers many times.

  One time he ambushed a teacher outside school with his two friends because he was scolded for smoking in class. The three of them punched him hard but they never got in trouble for it.

  His friends obviously were Shimizu and Kato, everyone knew it was them but nobody said a thing.

  These three were the kind of people that would have an explosive and overbearing attitude if someone scolded them or said something that they didn't like.

  They would be ruthless and wouldn't hesitate in punching anybody. Nobody could stop them once they started attacking and they would aim at your nose to let you bleed on purpose so everyone could see that they did that to you. Kikuchiyo had been punched by Shimamura before without reason.

  This time, he had demanded an answer and since he didn't get it, Shimamura got furious and punched Kikuchiyo, sending him to the ground.

  [035]

  There are people in this life that get picked on by abusive people by nature.

  Unfortunately, Kikuchiyo was one of them. He had a natural ability to draw violent tendencies from naturally oppressive and arrogant individuals just by being near them. This held true for people like Shimamura. The more Kikuchiyo got frightened by Shimamura, the more angry Shimamura would get as if a dark beast within him got poked by a stick after biding its time to come out and explode on him, However, Shimamura didn't pick on him as often as before. But it wasn't because Shimamura got bored or became a kinder person, but because he didn't come to school as often.

  "So, why is he today on this street asking me these questions?"

  "I saw you Kiku!! You were waiting for Noriko outside the school. You were on the move as soon as she started walking away"

  "....."

  "Answer me, asshole!!"

  He biffed Kikuchiyo on the shoulder, his voice was becoming more furious.

  "They saw me..." Kikuchiyo thought to himself but a more horrid idea started running on his head.

  "They were watching me....they watched my every move..."

  He started obsessing with these thoughts.

  "These four guys were observing me for a while, they saw everything I did."

  "You knew Noriko's day in the library was today, didn't you?"

  Kato mentioned this standing behind Shimamura.

  Just like Shimamura, Kato was wearing a pair of baggy white pants and a dark t-shirt.

  He didn't dye his hair like Shimamura but he was bulkier and more intimidating than him.

  What Kato said sent a chill into Kikuchiyo's spine.

  "Does this means that they were waiting for Noriko too!!"

  [036]

  It didn't take long for him to figure out the sinister plan that these four were going to carry out.

  "What a brash babe..."

  Kikuchiyo remembered that Shimamura said something like this when Noriko ignored his approaches.

  "I'm going to make her cry and scream from pleasure someday". He also remember that he said this too.

  "That someday must be today!!"

  There wasn't that many people on the street and the sun had just disappeared behind the mountain.

  It was getting dark fast. There was little light away from the pine trees but it was dark in the forest.

  The burly guy standing behind them, suddenly broke his silence with a deep voice.

  "Get them..."

  Shimamura ordered Shimizu and Kato to hurry and get them. They started running to catch Noriko and Seto that were away almost 160 feet from them.

  "Got you fooled but she does dirty things with that pretty face"

  Shimamura gave a glance to Kikuchiyo as if he was laughing at his naivety.

  "She's just a fucking slut, you know?"

  He said this loudly with a cynical tone of voice, but Kikuchiyo didn't understand what he meant by it, but he felt horrified when he heard what he said next.

  "She takes money from middle age men and she lets them stick it in, the whore..."

  Shimamura was nodding as if he had the higher moral ground and then turned to talk to a very disappointed man.

  “Is that right, Mr. Kuromuna?”

  [037]

  "Yeah, that's right..." the man named Kuromuna nodded. He looked like a sleazy yakuza even though he was going in high school.

  "She looks down on us as if we were trash but what she does is dirtier than us"

  Shimamura grabbed Kikuchiyo's shoulder, turned him around and pushed him hard,

  he was very strong.

  "Walk!!" he ordered him with a strong tone.

  This road was leading them to a densely forested area. If they kept walking where the forest met the sea, there would be a secluded area that people never walked around there.

  "I'm gonna show you her pleasure screams" Shimamura said, smiling.

  He kept pushing Kikuchiyo's back until they started walking. Kato and Shimizu were walking towards them. Noriko was coming along between them but mysteriously Seto wasn't there.

  "Where is Seto?" Shimamura asked them.

  "As soon as I told him I needed to have a private word with Noriko, he remembered that he had an important appointment and left in a hurry." Kato started laughing at how easy it was to snatch her.

  Kikuchiyo knew that Noriko was looking at him surprised but he kept looking down. He didn't want to look at her.

  "Shimamura Senpai, what do you want? It's quite late..."

  He heard Noriko saying with a tense voice but she managed to keep her composure.

  "I need you to walk over there with me, Babe, just for a little while"

  "If you have something to say, say it here, I won't go anywhere else" Her tone was serious.

  As soon as she finished saying that, there was a sharp sound.

  SPLAT!!

  Shimamura slapped her violently. When she fell on her knees, Kato and Shimizu picked her up and carried her holding her arms and took her to the pine tree forest. At the same time, Shimamura was pushing Kikuchiyo into that dark forest too, following them.

  [038]

  The ground was a combination of dirt mixed with sand and the terrain was so rugged that if you were to make a big hole there, you'd find even more sand there. It would be very hard to run away from there.

  "Why is Kikuchiyo Akuta-kun here with you, guys?” She couldn't understand why a soft and polite boy would be hanging out with those delinquents, but he was the only one that could side with her and help her out.

  "Hey, idiot!! She asked you a question, answer!!" Shimamura screamed.

  Kikuchiyo was biting his lip softly while holding firmly a couple of strang
e carton boxes with both hands.

  "You haven't say a damn word since I found you, are you retarded!?"

  A vicious punch caught him right in the cheek and in the nose. He felt the flash of the impact, the intense heat next and pain, in turn, followed.

  Pain...and the warm liquid from the back of the nose to the mouth came at the same time. Kikuchiyo knew that metallic taste pretty well. It was blood, his own blood started flow in a stream between his nose and his tightly sealed lips, he didn't mutter a sound or a groan.

  Shimamura finally paid attention at the boxes that Kikuchiyo were holding.

  "Show me what do you have in the boxes!!"

  He tried to take those boxes from his hands forcefully.

  [039]

  Kikuchiyo wasn't letting go.

  "Let it go, fool!!"

  He was punched in the stomach this time. His skinny body bent like a broken dogleg but he still was holding the boxes in his hands for dear life.

  "This is bullshit, gimme that!!"

  Kuromuna took Kikuchiyo’s skinny right arm with his thick fingers and quickly started twisting it.

  He must have felt intense pain but he held the box with all his might for a while but the box eventually started breaking because he was holding it so hard. There was a small scratching noise from inside the box that was echoing inside the thick forest.

  "Mr. Kuromuna is pretty pissed off because someone killed his dog recently, so, for your own good, Kiku, let it go" When Shimamura said that, Kikuchiyo finally let his right hand go.

  When Kuromuna grabbed and opened the box to see what the kid was defending so vehemently,

  He could see the contents with the natural light of night, but was startled by the contents.

  There were so many little things wiggling around the carton box:praying mantis, grasshoppers, dragon flies, and lady bugs that had no head or legs. Hundreds of them rubbed against each other or against the paper to make more noise.

  “What the fuck is this!?” Kuromuna tossed the box away.

  After it landed, he went and kicked it and stepped on it over and over again.

  Shimamura opened the second carton box and found the legs, heads, wings and antennae of the bugs from the other box. Disgusted, he tossed the box onto the ground.

  "Are you crazy!!?"

  Kikuchiyo didn't make a sound or an expression, he kept looking at the ground.

  [040]

  It seemed that something eerie slowly came out from Kikuchiyo's body. It was inexplicable but something very alike to miasma was engulfing them.

  Noriko, that was seized by Kato and Shimizu at the moment none of them couldn't see the contents of the boxes.

  "Hey! What was it!? What was inside the boxes?" both of them were asking.

  “Dead bugs. He ripped their legs off and put them in the other box.” Shimamura replied disgusted.

  "You creepy fucker!!" He punched Kikuchiyo repeatedly until he fell on the floor.

  Right at that moment, there were sounds of running steps in the forest coming close from where they were.

  "Help me!! Please Help!!" Noriko screamed at the top of her lungs.

  The sound of steps running stopped and instead, the sound of someone approaching them started to feel closer. The voice of a man could be heard from a short distance.

  "Is there something the matter, miss?"

  "Heeereeee!! Pleeeem...hmmm, hmmm" Shimamura struggled to keep her quiet covering her mouth. He hadn't expected her be so talented at screaming and nobody really knew she could be that loud.

  The sound of the man approaching got frantic and finally his figure appeared.

  It was him...."The impressive tall man wearing the gray sweatshirt that passed me so fast running barefoot." It was a nice feeling to see him once again, especially at this very moment, Kikuchiyo thought to himself.

  "You lot!! What do you think you're doing!!?"

  He thundered out with a strong voice, a voice so strong that he paralyzed everyone for a moment and Kikuchiyo felt that Kato was shaken a bit. The voice of the man was that strong.

  [041]

  "Just keep walking along, old man. This is none of your business" Shimamura tried to sound menacing.

  "Tall words for such a stuck-up brat"

  "Did you just call me a brat, asshole!!?

  "You heard me..."

  "You have no fucking clue who you're messing with, huh!? You're gonna regret it"

  Shimamura took something out of his pocket that made a metal clicking sound and a blade popped out of it. He was holding a knife.

  The man kept looking at him, unimpressed at the move.

  "Kid, you're going to get hurt if you play with pointy things in the darkness."

  The man said in a relaxed tone of voice. To be honest, he didn't feel the least intimidated by all these kids surrounding him.

  Shimamura's face turned red and his temper was gone.

  "You really want to push your luck here, don't cha!!?"

  Trying to show that he was being serious, he started juggling with the knife, moving it from right to left but it had the opposite effect on the man.

  "Hmm, hmm, come on, kid. "

  The man looked slightly amused.

  Shimamura hesitated. Used to the situation in which he'd take advantage of people's fears once he took the knife out, this was the first time when the target was actually laughing at him. Worse still, he had never been in a serious knife fight before, he had no idea how this would play out but his anger took the best of him.

  The man remained calm. Consumed by rage, Shimamura decided to dash and stab him. Handling the knife in his right hand, he made a rush move towards the man in the sweatshirt, launching a quick stab.

  The man swiftly stepped back with his left foot, leaning back his upper body, he avoided the stab, making Shimamura's body wobble.

  [042]

  The man lifted his left leg like a vaulting bamboo pole that sprung too fast. Catching Shimamura's wrist with his toe, the knife flew towards the pine trees and fell on the sand, hardly making a sound.

  "So, you play Karate, Huh!?"

  Shimamura tried to sound cool, hiding the fact that his wrist hurt like hell. He was holding it with his other hand.

  "Sure, every once in a while" the man said with a grin. He wasn't agitated at all, in fact, he didn't even considered it a serious training match, much less a dangerous situation.

  In contrast, the group of kids were totally intimidated by him. Had they started some trouble, they knew that they were in for a painful experience.

  "Shit, let's go" Kuromuna said with a frustrated voice and spat on the sand.

  Giving a piercing look at the man, Kikuchiyo and Noriko, he clucked and started walking away.

  "Mr. Kuromuna!! Wait!!" Shimamura yelled and started running after him, Kato and Shimizu quickly followed.

  Kikuchiyo couldn't believe his eyes. He kept looking at the man with a stunned face. That move kept playing in his mind over and over again. It was beautiful, it was unreal. The powerful and swift movement was not something he'd forget for a long time.

  He wanted to say something, but his mouth betrayed him. Only opening it half way, he just breathed without saying anything.

  In turn, the man gave a big smile to both of them.

  "I'll see you around, friends." said the man with a soft voice.

  [043]

  "Thank you very much, sir..."

  Noriko said to the man, but when she finished the sentence, the man was gone.

  He left as fast as when he came to help them.

  [044]

  ~ ACT 5

  The room was ample and had a wooden floor from end to end. Actually, it was as big as a house but it was a single room. All covered with a wooden floor, it was a very spacious room.

  This wasn't a regular room either, instead of a roof, it had an open glass ceiling. Instead of aluminum windows, it had glass windows framed in the wooden walls. Brass locks were built on the windows to be op
en and closed from the inside. This was a very old building, but it was sturdy.

  In the main wall, it had an ink brushed sign that said [ 武凜館] "BURINKAN". It was big and elegant and demonstrated that it was a place to practice martial arts.

  The construction used good and sturdy wood materials to make it withstand the effects of weather and time. If you were to visit, you would think it was a humble community hall.

  Every morning, the sun landed its strongest shine on this wooden floor. Cherry blossom petals carried by the wind would be scattered around it. The beautiful patch of light would be reflected in the slope.